The Tunisian city of Sayada now has an innovative new mesh network, thanks to a $2.3 million grant from the State Department. In the case of severe web blocking, like Tunisians faced in 2011, mesh networks could be the citizens only means of digital communications. Still, the promise of open communications has led the State […]
Last week, we told you about a new messaging app from Open Garden called FireChat whose key feature is that it doesn’t need an Internet connection to work. It creates a mesh network between users and the Internet with a new protocal in iOS 7 called Multipeer Connectivity Framework. As Cult of Mac points out, as this […]
Scientific American’s March issue has an intriguing article which explores the efforts of digital activists to circumvent corporate and governmental control over the Internet. The aim of the moment is to configure and build a decentralized mesh network that cannot be blocked, filtered or turned off. Egypt’s Internet shutdown during last year’s Arab Spring played […]
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